2011年11月30日星期三

Yet when McGlockton’s NFL career came to an end, so did the perceptions.

The former Clemson star and first-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Raiders in 1992, who died early Wednesday morning at age 42 of an apparent heart attack, was often an impact player on the field, using his 6-foot-4, 328-pound body at defensive tackle/nose tackle to manhandle offensive linemen, stuff running backs or get to the quarterback. Four times over a 12-year NFL career he was chosen for the Pro Bowl, moncler jackets all four of the selections coming during his six years as a Raider. However, McGlockton often was thought to carry enough negative baggage to outweigh those positives. In newspaper stories, he sometimes was referred to as “underachieving,” “inconsistent” or “moody.” When he signed with the Denver Broncos in 2001 near the end of his career, coach Mike Shanahan dismissed references to McGlockton’s “questionable reputation” or what the Denver Post called his “negative locker room influence,” saying, “Hey, I judge people on how I feel, not what other people say.” Yet when McGlockton’s NFL career came to an end, so did the perceptions. The big man, troubled by weight problems and injuries, dealt with both, losing more than 60 pounds, according to a San Jose Mercury News story in 2008, while turning his attention to coaching and helping others and embracing his Christian faith. As Carl Steward of the Mercury News wrote in that 2008 piece, McGlockton was a man with a new outlook. “Sullen and temperamental as a player, he is affable and loquacious today,” he wrote when McGlockton was serving as a coach at Chabot College in Hayward. For the past two seasons, McGlockton served as a defensive assistant coach at Stanford, first under Jim Harbaugh and then David Shaw. His death came as a shock to Cardinal players and coaches. “Everyone in the Stanford family is deeply saddened by the passing of Chester McGlockton,” Shaw said in a statement released by the school. “For the past two seasons, Chester has been a valuable member of our football staff and a wonderful friend to us all. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Chester’s wife Zina and their two children.” As a defensive lineman, McGlockton could often be a game-changer. After coming out of Whiteville, N.C., where he helped his team to a 15-0 record and a state championship, McGlockton was a force at Clemson, where he played three seasons before being a first-round pick of the then-Los Angeles Raiders in 1992. McGlockton had 20.5 sacks in his three-year career Men - moncler jackets at Clemson and was an All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection. He went on to play with the Raiders from 1992-97, before going on to the Chiefs (1998-2000), Broncos (2001-02) and Jets (2003). His best seasons came while wearing silver and black, with his best season in 1994 when he had a career-high 9½ sacks with three forced fumbles and 48 tackles. “The thoughts and prayers of the Raider Nation are with the McGlockton family during this difficult time,” said Raiders CEO Amy Trask in a statement released Wednesday. Former Pro Bowl Raiders guard Steve Wisniewski, who went against McGlockton every day in practice, said his teammate was dominating. “There was no one in the NFL who could block Chester if he didn’t want to be blocked,” Wisniewski told Steve Corkran of the Bay Area News Group. “He had that ability to be a dominant force like a Mean Joe Greene. He was as good as they come.” After his retirement, McGlockton had a coaching internship with NFL Europe, before coaching at Chabot, the University of Tennessee and Stanford. Along the way, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Tennessee-Martin in 2010. Wisniewski said McGlockton “matured in his years beyond football.” In the years after he retired, McGlockton came to love coaching. “I love to see my guys competing,” he told Steward in the 2008 story. “Even though it’s not me out there competing, moncler jackets for women it still feels as though I am.” Unfortunately for McGlockton, however, the toll he played for 12 years in the National Football League was high. He had Lap-Band surgery to take off the weight, but every day he felt the accumulated pain of colliding with other big, powerful men on a football field.

2011年11月29日星期二

Weaver said Commissioner Roger Goodell supported the sale

Fire Jack Del Rio, who has the Jaguars at 3-8 in his ninth season as coach, and who had made the playoffs twice and won only one postseason game, and install the defensive coordinator Mel Tucker as the interim coach? Check. Extend the contract of General Manager Gene Smith, who like moncler jackets drafted the rookie quarterback Blaine Gabbert, whom Del Rio benched in Sunday’s loss to the Texans? Check. And make the stunning announcement that Weaver, the founding owner of the 17-year-old franchise, had sold the team to an auto-parts mogul who was born in Pakistan and had previously tried to buy the St. Louis Rams and who has vowed to keep the Jaguars in Jacksonville? Done. The Jaguars, in the most tumultuous day for the franchise since it was formed in 1995, recast their future and at least for now removed the possibility that they would move to Los Angeles, which hopes to lure at least one team to a new stadium that has yet to be built. Weaver had long maintained publicly that he would not sell the team, which struggled to fill its stadium and which repeatedly avoided local television blackouts only with the help of tarps covering large swaths of seats. But on Tuesday, Weaver sold the Jaguars to Shahid Khan, who emigrated from Pakistan as a teenager, made his fortune in an Illinois-based auto parts company called Flex-N-Gate and had tried to buy the Rams last year before Stan Kroenke exercised his right to match his offer. Forbes magazine recently listed the Jaguars as the least valuable N.F.L. team, at $725 million. The magazine reported Tuesday that Khan paid $760 million for the team. Weaver said Commissioner Roger Goodell supported the sale, an indication that concerns about Khan’s financial and tax situation, raised during his pursuit of the Rams, had been resolved and that the sale would probably be approved by owners. “This gentleman is absolutely the American story,” Weaver said of Khan, 61. Weaver, who became emotional when discussing the deal, also sought to temper speculation that the team’s sale might mean it would soon be moving. Weaver said Khan first inquired about a minority interest in the Jaguars five years ago about Men - moncler jackets and came back a year ago seeking to buy the team. Weaver said his criteria for a new owner was to find someone whose passion for football in Jacksonville matched his. With the Jaguars apparently staying put, the San Diego Chargers, who are seeking a new stadium, are now the most likely team to move to Los Angeles. “If the proposed transaction is approved in the weeks ahead, I will responsibly and enthusiastically serve the N.F.L., the Jacksonville Jaguars and their great fans, and I will be fully committed to delivering Jacksonville its first Super Bowl championship,” Khan said in a statement. “This is a franchise with tons of potential, playing in a community that is passionate about football and loves to win. I can’t think of a better place to be.” Khan will have to make a huge decision almost immediately: hiring a new coach. Del Rio was the first N.F.L. coach to be fired this season, and while the move was expected, Weaver acknowledged that the timing was awkward because of the concurrent announcement of the team’s sale. COLTS MAKE CHANGES Indianapolis fired its defensive coordinator, Larry Coyer,cheap moncler jackets for women and announced that quarterback Dan Orlovsky would make his first N.F.L. start since 2008. The changes came after the Colts dropped to 0-11 for the first time since 1986.

2011年11月28日星期一

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Ginger White told about moncler jackets Fox 5 in Atlanta she met Cain in the late '90s while he was chairman of the National Restaurant Association and that the relationship was "pretty simple." "It wasn't complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship," White told WAGA-TV. INTERACTIVE: Presidential poll tracker An hour before the interview was scheduled to air, Cain denied White's allegations during an interview on CNN. The American people, Cain said in a statement released after White's interview aired, are tired of "dirty politics and smear tactics" and that the allegations were prompted by political opponents "afraid of a Cain presidency." In the WAGA interview, White described her affair with Cain as "fun" and described how Cain would fly her to meet him at his speaking engagements around the country. Cain, White said, gave her copies of his recently published books and inscribed them with personal messages. Inside his book Leadership is Common Sense, White said he wrote: "Miss G, you have already made a 'big Men - moncler jackets difference!' Stay focused as you pursue your next destination." She said Cain autographed his book 2001 CEO of SELF, "Friends are forever! Everything else is a bonus." White also supplied WAGA with phone records that showed 61 calls or text messages from one number that she said was Cain's private cellphone. When the reporter texted the number, Cain called them back. White said Cain never mistreated her or sexually harassed her and planned to keep the affair a secret but became bothered by how Cain handled allegations by four women that he had sexually harassed them. "It bothered me that they were being demonized, sort of, they were treated as if they were automatically lying, and the burden of proof was on them," White said. "I felt bad for them." WAGA reported that several media outlets had been tipped off to White's relationship with Cain and had been trying to persuade her to come forward. Cain acknowledged to CNN that he knew White and had considered her a friend. "The accusation I had a 13-year affair with her, no," Cain said. Cain said the allegations will not cause him to drop his bid for the presidency. Cain said he found out about moncler jackets for women the allegations when the television station contacted his lawyer, Lin Wood, for comment.

2011年11月26日星期六

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Pakistan said it was reviewing its alliance with the US and NATO after the lethal strike which it branded a violation of international law, summoning the US ambassador Cameron Munter and warning of serious repercussions of moncler jackets. It also announced the closure of its Afghan border to NATO, shutting down a supplies lifeline for 130,000 US-led foreign troops fighting the Taliban, and called on the US to leave a remote air base reportedly used by CIA drones. The NATO force in Afghanistan admitted it was "highly likely" its aircraft caused the deaths in Saturday's pre-dawn strike, inflaming US-Pakistani relations still reeling from the May killing of Osama bin Laden. The US commander in Afghanistan promised a full investigation and sent his condolences over any troops he said may have been killed" on the Afghan border with Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton bolstered that message in a joint statement on Sunday, offering their "deepest condolences" and backing NATO's intention to investigate immediately. Clinton, US commander in Afghanistan General John Allen, and the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, called their Pakistani counterparts to discuss the situation. "These US diplomatic and military leaders each stressed - in addition to their sympathies and a commitment to review the circumstances of the incident - the importance of the US-Pakistani partnership, which serves the mutual interests of our people," the US statement said. "All these leaders pledged to remain in close contact with their Pakistani counterparts going forward as we work through this challenging time." NATO troops often conduct operations against Taliban insurgents close to the border with Pakistan, which in many places is unmarked, although the extent to which those operations are co-ordinated with Pakistan is unclear. Afghan and US officials accuse Pakistani troops at worst of colluding with the Taliban or at best of standing by while insurgents fire across the border from Pakistani soil, often in clear sight of Pakistani border posts. At the same time Pakistan, battling its own Taliban insurgency in the northwest and dependent on billions of dollars in US aid, gives the US-led war effort in Afghanistan vital logistical support. Questions remain unanswered about what exactly happened in Mohmand district, just hours after Allen discussed coordination with Pakistan's army chief General Ashfaq Kayani. Pakistan said NATO helicopters and fighter aircraft fired unprovoked on two army border posts, killing 24 to 26 troops and wounding 13, adding that Pakistani troops had returned fire. The government said the attacks were "a grave infringement" of sovereignty with moncler, a "serious transgression of the oft-conveyed red lines". A spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, confirmed foreign soldiers, working with Afghan troops, called in air support for an operation near the border. "It's highly likely that this close air support, called by the ground forces, caused the casualties," Jacobson told AFP. Pakistan swiftly sealed its border with Afghanistan to NATO supplies - holding up convoys at the Torkham and Chaman crossings on the main overland US supply line into landlocked Afghanistan from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi. An extraordinary meeting of cabinet ministers and military chiefs ordered the US to leave the Shamsi air base within 15 days, despite reports that American personnel had already left. It also said the government would "undertake a complete review of all programs, activities and cooperative arrangements with US/NATO/ISAF, including diplomatic, political, military and intelligence". The Pakistani military said funerals will be held at 9.30am (1109 AEDT) on Sunday in the northwestern city of Peshawar for those soldiers killed. Relations between Pakistan and the US have been in crisis since American troops killed bin Laden near the capital without prior warning and after a CIA contractor killed two Pakistanis in Lahore in January. Pakistani, US and Afghan officials have traded complaints about responsibility for cross-border attacks, with accusations that too little is being done to prevent insurgent assaults on military positions. Moncler jackets for women, cheap moncler women down jackets on sale.

2011年11月24日星期四

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2011年11月20日星期日

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2011年11月19日星期六

The 35-member IAEA board adopted the measure

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2011年11月17日星期四

Miller is one of 45 Healthy Youth Club members

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2011年11月16日星期三

The case held high stakes for all the parties involved

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2011年11月15日星期二

When we first met Ken Milles two years ago

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2011年11月14日星期一

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2011年11月13日星期日

Few of them are doing it for the salary

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2011年11月12日星期六

Some highlights of the foreign policy

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2011年11月11日星期五

Sandusky went from mentor to sexual predator

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2011年11月10日星期四

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2011年11月9日星期三

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Heavy D, who was born Dwight Arrington Myers, died Tuesday in the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after collapsing on the walkway outside his Beverly Hills home, according to law enforcement sources. The Los Angeles County coroner's office is investigating the cause of death.

Myers, who was 6 feet 3 and weighed more than 300 pounds at one point, anointed himself the "Overweight Lover," but he had slimmed down in recent years.

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Born May 24, 1967, in Jamaica, Myers was the youngest of six children. His mother Eulah, a nurse, and father, Clifford, a film technician, moved the family to Mount Vernon, N.Y., when he was young.

2011年11月8日星期二

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Romney said nothing about the latest allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior against fellow national GOP poll leader Herman Cain. Instead, Romney stuck to the script during a 20-minute speech stressing his private-sector background and proposal to trim federal spending.

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2011年11月7日星期一

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The Pennsylvania attorney general with moncler jackets and the state police commissioner excoriated Penn State officials on Monday for failing over several years to alert the authorities to possible sexual abuse of young boys by a prominent football assistant.
They said the university employees who declined to report the incidents to the police put countless more children at risk of being abused by Jerry Sandusky, the longtime assistant who has been charged with sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year span, including during his tenure as an assistant at Penn State. Frank Noonan, the police commissioner who spent more than 30 years with the F.B.I. and the Attorney General’s office, said the nature of the alleged incidents was unprecedented in his experience about moncler jackets 2011.

Even after Sandusky “made admissions about inappropriate contact in the shower room” in 1998 to the Penn State campus police, “Nothing happened,” Noonan said. “Nothing stopped.”

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Sacramento State's defense took advantage of Viking miscues in the first half to keep the team in the game, but in the end the offense's inability to find its rhythm and finish drives did in the Hornets.

Asked to sum up the attitude in the locker room after the team's third straight loss, Sac State coach Marshall Sperbeck struggled to find the right words.

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Senior quarterback Jeff Fleming, who started after missing the two previous games with an injury, said the team was frustrated after so many tough losses.

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Fleming admitted feeling rusty in his return and blamed himself for missing opportunities in a woeful first half for the Hornets' offense.

Sac State (3-6, 2-5) went three-and-out on three of Fleming's first four drives, leading Sperbeck to insert freshman Garrett Safron, who also went three-and-out before Sperbeck reinserted Fleming.

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The two boats, one Canadian and the other Irish, carried 27 pro-Palestinian activists, journalists and crew members from nine countries who were challenging Israel’s maritime blockade of the Palestinian enclave. The military had made clear that it would not allow the boats to reach Gaza, which is governed by the Islamic militant group Hamas.

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2011年11月3日星期四

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Graham Zusi provided the assist on both goals, sending set pieces into the box with Aurelien Collin and C.J. Sapong tracking down the deliveries to hand Sporting a comfortable win.

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As the number one seed in the Eastern Conference, Sporting knows it will host Sunday's Conference Final. But with Houston and Philadelphia squaring off on Thursday, its opponent has yet to be determined. Houston holds a one-goal advantage with the match being played at Robertson Stadium.

Colorado, reigning MLS Cup champion, ends its season in disappointing fashion.

Not only was head coach Gary Smith without Conor Casey for much of the season after the star striker sustained an Achilles injury, but he also had to cope with the playoff losses of Caleb Folan, Jamie Smith, Kosuke Kimura, and Drew Moor. Midfield general Pablo Mastroeni was also unavailable for Wednesday night's match, still recovering from a concussion moncler men.

2011年11月1日星期二

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